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How to Marry a Millionaire
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2443
- IMDb #2759
- Rotten Tomatoes #1736
- Letterboxd #2217
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1994
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1973
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 46, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 81. Critics average 81, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three New York City models pool their resources to rent a lavish apartment and pose as wealthy socialites. Their goal is to meet and marry millionaire husbands. Each pursues her target with a different strategy, leading to a series of comedic romantic misadventures that challenge their initial materialistic ambitions.
Details
- Director
- Jean Negulesco
- Writer
- Nunnally Johnson
- Based on
- a work by Zoë Akins
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 10 November 1953
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →0 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1953 | Best Costume Design – Color | Charles LeMaire and William Travilla | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1953 | Best Written American Comedy | Nunnally Johnson | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1953 | Best Film from any Source | How to Marry a Millionaire | Nominee |
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3 awards — How to Marry a Millionaire
×| Best Costume Design – Color | Charles LeMaire and William Travilla | Nominee |
| Best Written American Comedy | Nunnally Johnson | Nominee |
| Best Film from any Source | How to Marry a Millionaire | Nominee |